Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rhythm of "The Peanut Vendor" is best grasped by spectators at the Carnival of the blacks in Santiago de Cuba. On this annual occasion the town is turned over to the dark of skin, who dominate locally. Everything goes, without police interference, and no opportunities are wasted...
March 21-22 - Annual regatta at Havana, Cuba...
...Cuba, where gambling facilities abound, divorce was last week made almost as easy as in Mexico. Almost unanimous votes in both houses of the national Congress modified the Cuban law as follows: "Divorces may be granted on the application of both parties, the decrees to be known as mutual consent decrees. They will be effective within 90 days from the filing of application. Both parties shall report before courts three times, 30 days apart." The divorce becomes automatically effective if, 30 days after the decree is issued, the parties do not ask to have it set aside. The bill makes...
...enemy planes in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives, for which he was decorated by the U. S., French and Belgian governments. Before joining Colonial Airways in 1926 to help pioneer the first mail and passenger service in the East, he operated oil wells in Mexico, planted sugar in Cuba, banked in Spain...
Last week Mr. Mooney returned from Cuba. Said he: "While some of us may be busy with our own companies ... we must not fail in our efforts on the North Atlantic, the most highly competitive trade lane in the world...